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On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 12:26:52PM -0700, Matt wrote: >>We've had two complaints that people miss the old setup.exe that worked >>"so well". >> >>It would be pretty trivial (thanks to Ron's excellent design) to have >>the current setup.exe pull in all of the non-source tar files and >>extract them. It would be a huge binary, but if that's what people >>what... > >I think we should keep it approximately the way it is, except maybe put >all the packages in one subdir of /latest (like /latest/packages). >This new scheme allows us to do some neat stuff later (like getting >only updated packages). I wasn't talking about supplanting the new method, I was offering additional methods for downloading packages. We could provide a packages and sources directory in latest which just had symbolic links to the stuff in the subdirectories, I suppose. cgf
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